Nostalgialator

Nostalgialator is a studio album by American hip hop musician Mike Ladd. It was released on Studio !K7 in 2004. It was re-released on Definitive Jux in 2007.

Nostalgialator
Studio album by Mike Ladd
Released	July 26, 2004 (2004-07-26)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	38:40
Label	Studio !K7
Producer	Mike Ladd Jeff Cordero Scotty Hard
Mike Ladd chronology
Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000) Nostalgialator (2004) Negrophilia: The Album (2005)
Singles from Nostalgialator
"Wild Out Day" / "Jet Pack" Released: 2003 "Housewives at Play" Released: 2004

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Dusted Magazine	mixed[3]
Exclaim!	unfavorable[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Phoenix	[6]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[7]
PopMatters	[8]
XLR8R	7/10[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing, "Perhaps Nostalgialator isn't the artist's most provocative work, but his mix of indie electronica, rock, blues, punk, hip-hop, and spoken word certainly makes it one of his most interesting and fulfilling endeavors."^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dire Straits Plays Nuremberg"	2:23
2.	"Trouble Shot"	3:40
3.	"Housewives at Play"	3:09
4.	"Black Orientalist"	3:08
5.	"Wild Out Day"	2:55
6.	"How Electricity Really Works"	4:07
7.	"Off to Mars?"	4:25
8.	"Learn to Fall"	3:24
9.	"Afrotastic"	2:21
10.	"Nostalgialator"	5:34
11.	"Sail Away Ladies (Traditional, After Odetta)"	3:34

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Jeff Cordero – keyboards (1, 10), guitar (10)
• Jaleel Bunton – guitar (2, 3, 5)
• Damali Young – drums (2, 3, 5)
• Vijay Iyer – keyboards (7, 11), synthesizer (8)
• Ambrose Akinmusire – trumpet (7)
• Dana Leong – trombone (7)
• Scotty Hard – guitar (11)